Pop Sugar Challenge Update

I'm finished!  This challenge was fantastic, it really encouraged me to spread my wings and broaden my reading horizons.  Here is a list of all the books I read, at the bottom, for those so inclined I will list my top 10 - not to be missed books I read due to this challenge and the top 10 biggest busts.  Check it out

• a book with 500 pages - Black Halo by S.L. Naeole
• a classic romance - The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
• a book that became a movie - With Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahearn
• a book published this year - And the Wicked Will Rise by Danielle Paige
• a book with a number in the title - 20 Boy Summer 
• a book written by someone under 30 - Split 
• book by a female author - Teasy by Amanda Maciel
• mystery or thriller - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
• book with a one word title - Moth by Daniel Aronson
• book of short stories - When it Happens to You by Molly Ringwald
• a book set in a different country - Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
• nonfiction - Reading in the Dark by Seamus Deane
• new author - Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
• a book recommended by a friend - Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks
• Pulitzer Prize winner - All the Light We Can Not See by Anthony Doerr
• a book based on a true story - The Boys in the Boat
• a book from the bottom of my TBR list - Heading out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick
• a book 100 years old - Call of the Wild by Jack London
• a book based on the cover - Love and Treasure by Ayelet Waldman
• a book I should have read in school - Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• a book I finished in a day - The Truth about Alice
• a book with antonyms in the title - The Truth Tellers Lie by Sophie Hannah
• a book set somewhere I've always wanted to visit - Parlor Games 
• a book with a love triangle - the Sin Eaters Daughter
• a book set in high school - Never, Never by Colleen Hoover
• a book set in the future - The Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
• a book with a color in the title - Golden Son by Pierce Brown
• a book that made me cry - All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
• a book with magic - The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
• a graphic novel - Ender's Game : Battle School
• a new author - The Good Girl by Mary Kubrica
• a book owned but not read - The Story Teller by Jodi Picout
• a book set in my hometown - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
• a book originally written in a different language - little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf
• a book set during Christmas - Saving Grace by S.L. Naeole
• a book series:  The Selection, The Elite, The One
• a banned book: A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
• a book started but never finished ( but now I have finished )  Perks of Being a Wallflower
• first book of a famous author - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
• a book from childhood - Fly by Night by K M Peyton
• a book with non human characters - Half Brother by Kenneth Oppal
• a funny book - Hark!  A Vagrant! by Kate Beaton
• a nonfiction book - The 6th Extinction: An Unnatural History
• a book from an author you love but haven't read yet - The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
• book based on a TV show - The Pines
• a book with an author with my initials - Bird Song S.L.  Naeole
• a book that scares me - Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody
• a memoir - American Titan - Searching for John Wayne
• a book released the year I was born - Jonathan Livingston Seagull
• a book with bad reviews - The Luxe\
• a book my mother loves - Gifts from the Sea by Ann Murrow Lindberg

And now, those books that I would probably not have read wtihout this challenge with were absolutely FANTASTIC - in no particular order:

• The Last of the Mohicans
• Salvage the Bones
• All The Light We Cannot See
• Of Mice and Men
• Speaker for the Dead
• All the Bright Places
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
• Half Brother
• The 6th Extinction
• The Pines

Some books that I wished I had passed on - over hyped or just not well written, in my opinion:

• The Girl on the Train
• Ender's Game: Battle School - Graphic novels are not for me, too distracting
• The Good Girl
• Little Mercies - so bad I couldn't force myself to finish
• A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl - just as terrible as it sounds
• Hark! A Vagrant!  - once you've read Hyberbole and a Half - nothing else is ever quite that funny
• The Luxe
• Moth - loved Daniel Aronson's other stuff, but this one was really flat.
• The Boys in the Boat - I wanted to love it and just didn't.
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